In Kabul, many streets have no name and houses often have no ... Rahim delivers dozens of letters every day across west and southwest Kabul, a city reduced almost to ruins in the brutal 1992-96 ...

Street sweepers, phone-card sellers, lemon peddlers and others whose marginal livelihood isn’t tied to a shop — and Kabul, to the extent it works, is a city of shopkeepers — negotiate the ...

Almost every city in the world has to deal with street crime, and some with dog packs. But few, if any, have to navigate such an underworld while also confronting unrelenting war.

The shop owners in one Kabul neighbourhood speak of a shadow government. “There are dogs and armed thieves who make people’s lives here hell,” said Fahim Sultani, a local elder who works ...

Kabul, A City Stretched Beyond Its Limits Decades of war, ... Aji Gul is a street vendor, struggling to make ends meet. A rugged man in his 50s with reddish-brown skin, ...

Taliban fighters patrol a street in Kabul on August 16, 2021. Wakil Koshar/AFP/Getty Images On the other side of the city, at Hamid Karzai International Airport, scenes of desperation were unfolding.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Last year, the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet. The reason? A massive garbage haul. Just about every unemployed man in Murad Khane was recruited to ...

KABUL — On an ordinary weekday, the streets of Kabul are choked with traffic, fetid with clogged drains and crammed with carts displaying potatoes or used sweaters. Shoppers, school children and ...

Something was missing Friday from the bustling bazaar in the heart of downtown Kabul: guns. Second-hand sock seller Aghazer, 33, who spent the day strategically positioned at the market’s mai… ...

Five years ago, Ahmad Zaki Sarfaraz returned to Kabul with aspirations to rebuild his war-torn city — and the urban planning tools to do it. Within a year, the Master of Urban Planning graduate — who ...